The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-20

labor. | would suggest more accurate
trials OF fertilizers ON our own lands.
The results of others on different soils
cannot be relied on always to meet our
case.
Rotation of crops also claims our at.
tention. Our present markets make it
specially desirable to grow such things
as exhaust our soil least and will pro.
duce the greatest return. Among these
we may, in many places, find fruit cul-
ture to be the thing. Potatoes are a
crop that take less from the soil than
grain and generally yield better re-
turn when properly grown Special
care in growing and in the care of
them until sold, often makes the diff
ference between profit and loss.
Peaches have been paying crop,
and will continue to be in localities
adapted to them, even if injudicious
over.production has brought financial
ruin to hundreds in our county.
Apples will probably pay as we'll in
the long run as peaches, if grown with
the same intelligent care that is neces-
sary for the former crop. With the
latter, our markets are now supplied
by that shipped at large expense, some
of it for five hundred miles. We rarely
grow enough apples for home consump-
tion, and we find our country stores re.
failing apples brought here from New
York, New England or Ohio during
the Winter months. And yet our ap.
Piles can be sold for better price fire.
quentIy, and we can put the cost of
freight from New York to Baltimore
i'll our pockets.
Fattening beef cattle is not so sure
as it once was, except for the best
quality that can be sold at the highest
figure, and why? Beef in tozerable or
der can be brought from Illinois or
Texas cheaper than it can be fed here.
But beef in the best order can not be
sent alive over five hundred or more
miles of railroad.
Making poor butter is not a profit,
able business at present prices and the
markets are overstocked with it, vet
there is always a paying demand for a
'first-rate article.
There is and will continue to be a
demand for spring lambs in our great
cities, and they cannot be transported
great distances in hot weather, and
here is branch of industry we have
allowed to be killed out by worthless
ours.
But why enumerate. The demand
for these things is always the same and
the profits will depend on the expense
and risk of putting them in market and
chiefly on the quality of the article
when it gets there.
One other idea and 1 am done.
There is no antagonism between farm
els doing the same kind of business as
between other trades. There is rather
community Of interest, as there need
be no danger of an overstock. When
any locality takes up one branch of
industry and pursues it successfully,
their product becomes sought in the
market, and what benefits one, will
benefit all alike, and the depreciation
OF the product of one farm, has o ten
dency to lower that of his neighbors.
Thus you see, even if you put it upon
the lowest motive, that of selfshness,
it is to the interest of the agriculturists
to help one another. The same prin-
ciple that is good in the moral world
is good here also. No member of so.
ciety can be injured and the body not
suffer. In honoring one member, all
are exalted, while we all suffer from
the vices of the most despised among
us.-These considerations should make
us consider the higher and educational
interests of the community, and in i'm
proving our own minds, we establish a
higher standard of mental culture, bet.
ter schools, more public libraries, bet.
ter newspapers and periodicals, and
improved agricultural journals of all
sorts become a public necessity.
Let us rise then to the true dignity
of eur calling, and make it deserving Of
the place assigned it by "the father of
his country" as "the most healthful,
most useful. and most ennobling occu.
patton of man"